Community Stakeholder Viewpoints on Issues of Urbanisation Along the River Ma Oya, Sri Lanka

Thoradeniya, Bhadranie; Ranasinghe, Malik

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Bhadranie Thoradeniya⁵ &
Malik Ranasinghe⁶

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Rivers situated in peri-urban landscapes are prime natural resource bases supplying the construction industry associated with urbanisation. The study analyses and presents the river Ma Oya community stakeholders views on the impacts of river resource uses. Systematic stakeholder consultations revealed that while the river is the source for water supply for many cities, sand and clay mining for construction industry and dumping waste are the major sectors causing negative impacts. Essential remedial measures proposed are fair and effective intervention of Government authorities, stakeholder (including politicians) education together with technical measures and economic instruments to internalize the externalities caused by social and environmental degradation.

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Part of data used in this chapter has been from a research supported by a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, which is greatly acknowledged.

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Institute of Technology, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Bhadranie Thoradeniya
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Malik Ranasinghe

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School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
Basant Maheshwari
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Bhadranie Thoradeniya
Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA
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Thoradeniya, B., Ranasinghe, M. (2016). Community Stakeholder Viewpoints on Issues of Urbanisation Along the River Ma Oya, Sri Lanka. In: Maheshwari, B., Thoradeniya, B., Singh, V.P. (eds) Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4_9

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